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| author | Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org> | 2012-02-03 15:06:48 +1100 |
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| committer | Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org> | 2012-02-09 01:58:24 +0100 |
| commit | 4328f3ccf37d9a1baadbc55f658902e3b16ff125 (patch) | |
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| parent | b93326b9689d0ad935eed35f7cf5201ad04ac1ff (diff) | |
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smbwrapper: Remove smbwrapper
There are now many better ways to access a remote SMB filesystem,
which do not rely on LD_PRELOAD and the associated dangers. FUSE,
gvfs and the CIFS VFS are all much better options which do not require
knowing every possible libc entry point that can deal with a file
descriptor.
As an example of the maintainence that would be required to keep this
going, recent changes to deal with thread races and close-on-exec have
resulted in dup3(), but this isn't currently mapped. While this would
not be hard to add, it illistrates why it is better to move to an
interface designed for this task.
Andrew Bartlett
Autobuild-User: Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org>
Autobuild-Date: Thu Feb 9 01:58:24 CET 2012 on sn-devel-104
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diff --git a/docs-xml/using_samba/ch01.xml b/docs-xml/using_samba/ch01.xml index d44e41bbb2..ca8bc131ad 100644 --- a/docs-xml/using_samba/ch01.xml +++ b/docs-xml/using_samba/ch01.xml @@ -1516,17 +1516,6 @@ SIMPLE <1E> GROUP Registered -<sect2 role="" label="1.7.6" id="ch01-SECT-7.6"> -<title>Smbwrapper</title> - - -<para>Finally, there is an entirely new version of the Unix client called <firstterm>smbwrapper</firstterm> -<indexterm id="ch01-idx-951955-0"><primary>smbwrapper client</primary></indexterm>. Instead of a kernel module that allows Linux to act as a Samba client, there is now a command-line entry to load the library that provides a complete SMB filesystem on some brands of Unix. Once loaded, the command <literal>ls</literal> <literal>/smb</literal> will list all the machines in your workgroup, and <literal>cd</literal> <literal>/smb/</literal><replaceable>server_name</replaceable><literal>/</literal><replaceable>share_name</replaceable> will take you to a particular <indexterm id="ch01-idx-951956-0"><primary>shares</primary></indexterm> -<indexterm id="ch01-idx-951956-1"><primary>shared directory/resources</primary><see>shares</see></indexterm>share (shared directory), similar to the <indexterm id="ch01-idx-951957-0"><primary>Network File System (NFS)</primary></indexterm> -<indexterm id="ch01-idx-951957-1"><primary>NFS (Network File System)</primary></indexterm>Network File System (NFS). As of this writing, <emphasis>smbwrapper</emphasis> currently runs on Linux, Solaris, SunOS 4, IRIX, and OSF/1, and is expected to run on several more operating systems in the near future.</para> -</sect2> -</sect1> - |